A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

We should make virtue our master, not our servant.

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.